Footnotes: Introduction part 1
(1) Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of
comp., “Genealogy of
the death of her first husband, Thomas
Clark. Following William Harrison’s death in November, 1840, she moved their
children to
Delaware County
Biographical
Record, 150; Duke, “Genealogy of
journal entry for
(2) Charles Harrison, “Family Record” [1871], handwritten manuscript in
possession of William Ripley Harrison,
born on
Oscar married Diane Ida
Gunn who died on
and worked as a gardener in the township in 1880. Jake (Virginius) purchased
farmland in
time that he married Mrs. Lucinda Dunlap. They also
resided in the township at the same time the journal was written. Ultimately,
both
Oscar and Jake moved to
The Peoples Guide: A business, Political and Religious Directory
of Morgan County, Indiana (
1880, Population Schedules for Morgan,
pp 171, 176’ Deed
Book Z, p 155, Deed Book 35, p89, Office of the Recorder, Morgan County
Courthouse,
(3) Biographical Record, 148-50;
Duke, “Genealogy of
A legislative History of Morgan
County, Indiana (n.p., 1970) 105. Deed Books in the Morgan County Courthouse
attest to William Ripley’s
involvement in land deals. He married three times.
His first wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Park, died on
Walter J. – the
“Wat” of the journal. William Ripley then married Mary Wilson by whom he had
Effie and Mary Ellen. Finally, by Mary J.
Crawford – the Auth Mary of the
journal- he had Delia, Martha C., and Agnes Virginia. Duke, Genealogy of the
Tenth Census, 1880, p 141.
Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family"; Harrison, "Family Record"; Carl C. and Janet C. Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery Records"
[n.d.], 3 vols., typescript in possession of Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville, II, 497. Some sources, including his tombstone,
spell Alvin's name Alvan, but the spelling in the journal is accepted as accurate.
(6) U.S., Ninth Census, 1870, Population Schedules for Morgan County, Indiana. National Archives Microfilm Publications,
No. M-593, Roll 346, pp. 443-56; Martinsville Republican, November 17, 1904.
(7) Journal entry, December 5, 1880.
(8) The tenor of a reference to James Gray having attended normal school suggests that William Gregory was a "normalite" at
Martinsville. Ibid., April 17, 1881(9) Fred A. Harrison and his family were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Martinsville Republican, November 17,
1904.
(10) Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family:' The dates were confirmed by a visit to the Bethlehem Cemetery, Jefferson Township.
The fact that Charles, William, and Alvin all died at the age of twenty-seven has entered the folklore of Morgan County.
Interviews with Lloyd Hancock, Jefferson Township, August4, 1978. Alma Fraker, Martinsville, August 15, 1978. See also Martinsville
Daily Reporter, September 14, 1967. Attempts to discover the causes of death have proven unsuccessful. Death Records for Morgan
County do not exist prior to 1900, and no mention of the three brothers appears in the extant newspapers.(11) Deed Book 51, p 488: Martinsville Republican, November 17, 1904.
(12) Martinsville Republican, January 24, 1901. The article gives 859 North Jefferson as William Ripley's address, but this is an
error. Elaine Harrison to editor, August 21, 1978.
Footnotes Part 1
(1) The editing of the William Gregory Harrison journal was accomplished using the original manuscript in the possession of William Ripley Harrison,
Indianapolis, brought to the attention of the Indiana Magazine of History by Janet Halliday Ervin, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Spacings and indentions
have been standardized, but spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure are as nearly as found in the handwritten document as possible. Obvious
unintentional repetitions were deleted, raised letters brought down to the line, and double spaces added where sentences lacked periods. In all cases
where the manuscript was unclear, common English usage prevailed.
Identification of people, places, and colloquial terms has been attempted whenever such information was available. The use of nicknames and middle
names, however, complicated the editorial process. Walter J. (Wat) Harrison's wife, Margarett Emma, for example, appears as Emma Harrison in
census records. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, Population Schedules for Morgan, Newton, Noble Counties, Indiana. National Archives, Microfilm
Publications, No. T9, Roll 301, p. 177; Robert M. Duke, comp., "Genealogy of Harrison Family" [1941], typescript in possession of William Ripley
Harrison, Indianapolis. Ages given from the census records are as of June, 1880.
"Upper Burnet" refers to Burnett's Creek, a tributary of the White River, which ran through the Harrison farm. Today the creek is known as Lamb's
Creek, taking its name from Lamb's Bottom, a small, fertile valley in southern Jefferson Township, site of the earliest settlements in Morgan County.
Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Chicago, 1876), 126; Charles A. Blanchard, ed., Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown,
Indiana: Historical and Biographical (Chicago, 1884), 329-30.
(2) As noted in the introduction, in 1880 Fred Harrison owned one hundred sixty acres in two eighty-acre units. The "upper 80" refers
to the
unit described as the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three, Jefferson Township. Deed Book 30, p. 411, Office of the
Recorder, Morgan County Courtthouse, Martinsville, Indiana.
(3) William Ripley Harrison's third wife was Mary J. Crawford. She was born about 1833 and married W. R. in 1864. U.S., Tenth
Census, 1880, p. 141; Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family:'
(4) Walter J. Harrison was the eldest son of William Ripley Harrison. Born on October 5, 1852, he died May 23, 1934. He married
Margarett Emma Bishop on July 18, 1872. In 1880 they lived on a prosperous farm in Jefferson Townnship. U.s., Tenth Census, 1880,
p. 177; Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family"; Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 329-30.
(5) Effie J. Harrison, twenty-one, was the daughter of William Ripley and his second wife Mary Wilson. Born on June 2, 1859, she
died on September 13, 1897. Journal entries confirm her presence in Jefferson Township as a schoollteacher, although the 1880 census
does not list her with an occupation. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 141; Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family:'
(6) Bedford O'Neal (1856-1929) was a Jefferson Township farmer. No inforrmation on his wife was located. Carl C. and Janet C.
Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery Records" [n.d.], 3 vols., typescript, Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville, I, 267.
(7) Mary O'Neal, twenty-nine, was the wife of Jefferson Township farmer Jahu O'Neal. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 174.
Bedford, Jahu, and Woodford O'Neal were brothers. U.S. Ninth Census, 1870, Population Schedules for Morgan County, Indiana.
National Archives, Microfilm Publications, No. M-593, Roll 346, p. 453.
(8) As Democrats the Fred Harrisons were obviously pleased by Judge Solomon Claypool's election speech supporting the 1880
Democratic candidates. Local Republicans felt differently: "His speech was flat, stale and unprofitable, and didn't elicit a single cheer .... "
Martinsville Republican, October 7, 1880.
(9) "Jooking;' as used by William Gregory, apparently means "hiking;' although research in available records and interviews with
older residents of Morgan County failed to verify this. "Jook" can also mean to crouch suddenly, or it can describe corn that falls
from the sheaf when thrown from a stack. Neither definition fits the context in which it appears in the journal. Thomas Wright, Dictionary
of Obsolete and Provincial English (2 vols., London, 1880), II, 604.
(10) Charles H. Warthen, twenty-two, was a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 171.
(11) William Hand, thirty-one, was a Jefferson Township farmer. Ibid., p. 175.
(12) Joseph Ballinger, thirty-six, and his wife Margaret, twenty-six, owned a Jefferson Township farm. He served in Company K,
132nd Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War. Ibid., p. 174; Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery Records," I, 264.
(13) Nathan T. Whitson, twenty-one, was a farm laborer residing on Wat Harrison's farm. U.s., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 177.
(14) Robert L. Foster, thirty-six, was a Jefferson Township farmer. Ibid., pp. 173-174.
(15) William C. Curtis, thirty-two, was a Jefferson Township farmer and close neighbor of Fred A. Harrison. Ibid., p. 175.
(16) Probably Henry Fowler, forty-eight, who was a Jefferson Township farmer and neighbor of Fred A. Harrison. Ibid., p. 173.
17 The Crone Cemetery was located next to the Crone meetinghouse in section twenty-two, Jefferson Township. Some time
before 1880 the Crone meetinghouse was replaced by the Bethlehem Church and the burial ground is now known as the Bethlehem
Cemetery. Lloyd Hancock and his uncle tore down the Bethlehem Church about 1936 or 1937. Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery
Records;' II, 497; Interview with Lloyd Hancock, August 4, 1978, Jefferson Township.
18 As noted in the introduction, William Gregory's eldest brother, Charles Ripley, died on December 5, 1879.
19 Effie Harrison was probably teaching at School Number 7 on Buffalo Road in section thirty-four, Jefferson Township.
See footnote 104. Plat Map, Morgan County, Indiana, 1897, in possession of the Morgan County Library, Martinsville.
20 Mary Harrison's mother, Sophronia (Gregory) Van Demark, still resided in Ohio, although, as the journal notes, she was
considering a move to Morgan County. After the death of Mary's father, William Gregory, Sophronia married Daniel Van Demark.
Charles Harrison, "Family Record" [1871], handwritten manuscript in possession of William Ripley Harrison, Indianapolis.
21 Ballingertown, no longer in existence, was a small group of buildings located in section twenty-three, Jefferson Township, off
what is now the Balllinger Road. Inverview with Alma Fraker, August 15, 1978, Martinsville.
22 William and Alvin were caught in the last and largest Morgan County Republican rally of the 1880 campaign. The parade
began at 10:30 A.M. and the local pro-Republican newspaper reported that "the town was not big enough to accommodate the
monster procession." Even allowing for overstatement it was a significant gathering. Martinsville Republican, October 14, 1880.
23 The Reverend Mr. Moore was possibly the Reverend R. H. Moore, a Methodist minister who presided at Fred Harrison's
funeral. Martinsville Reepublican, November 17, 1904.
24 William Gregory uses a code evidently to keep prying eyes from noting caustic comments about the preachers and their
sermons. Attempts to solve the code have been unsuccessful.
25 Old Mr. Bain was probably Donald Bain, Sr. Born in Scotland on March 17, 1809, he immigrated first to Maryland, then
moved to Jefferson Township in 1843. In 1880 he was a highly respected citizen and farmer. Blanchard, Counties of Morgan,
Monroe and Brown, 326; U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 181.
26 Hynsdale was a small village in south Jefferson Township founded sometime after the Civil War. In 1880 it contained a
general store, post office, and blacksmith shop. Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 149.
27 Morgan county was, and reamains, a Republican stronghold. In 1880 the G.O.P campaigned on the "bloody shirt" of
the Civil War and the prevailing prosperity of the nation. William Gregory's faith was rewarded and the state and county Republican
ticket was victorious. Martinsville Republican, October 7, 14, 21, 1880; T. Harry Williams, Richard N. Current, and Frank Friedel,
A History of the United States (2nd ed. 2 vols., New York, 1964), II, 183.
28 Probably Nathan Whitson, seventeen, who was a Jefferson Township farmer, and not Nathan T. (Dob) Whitson. See footnote thirteen
US., Tenth Census, 1880, p 175
29 Probably Thomas Newburn, seventeen, who was a Jefferson Township farmer. See footnote sixty-nine. Ibid., 176
30 Dr. Wesley H. Cure, forty-nine, was a prominent Martinsville physician. Ibid., p. 141; The People's Guide: A Business, Political
and Religious Directory of Morgan County, Indiana (Indianapolis, 1874), 356.
31 William S. Shirley was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, on September 6, 1836. He attended Lagrange College, Lagrange,
Kentucky, and studied law in Louisville. In November, 1858, Shirley moved to Martinsville where he became William Ripley Harrison's
law partner from 1862 to 1874. He, his wife, and five children resided in Martinsville in 1880. Logan Esarey, ed., The Pioneers of
Morgan County: Memoirs of Noah J. Major (Indiana Historical Society Publications, Vol. V, No.5; Indianapolis, 1905), 477; U.S.,
Tenth Census, 1880, p. 147.
32 Ebenezer Henderson was another prominent Martinsville citizen asssociated with William Ripley Harrison. Born on June 22,
1833, he received two years of college at Indiana University before taking charge of his father's farm and making his fortune by
trading stock. He served as both the Morgan County deputy county treasurer and county treasurer and was a state senator from 1868
to 1872. In 1873, he, T. H. Parks, and William Ripley Harrison built Martinsville's last pork-packing plant, which failed in 1883.
Blanchard, Counnties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 190-91; Esarey, Pioneers of Morgan County, 471.
33 Reverend Runnion was the Church of Christ minister at the Lamb's Creek Church, Jefferson Township. Record Book of the Lamb's
Creek Church, in possession of Mrs. Lloyd Hancock, Jefferson Township.
34 Ephraim Schuler, born on October 12, 1855, and Green Shuler, born on October 9, 1861, were the sons of Hary [?] A. Shuler,
an Ashland Township farmer. In 1880 they both lived on their father's farm. Ephraim died on February 11, 1928, and Green on
August 25,1894. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 192; Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery Records;' II, 508, III, 828.
35 She was probably the fifteen-year-old daughter of Mariah Hand, a widow residing on a Jefferson Township farm. US., Tenth
Census, p.174.
36 John S. Crone, was the son of Henry Crone. In 1880 he still lived on his father's farm. See footnote seventy-one, Ibid, p 174
37 Mrs Elmeter Benge was a widow listed as "keeping house" in Jefferson Township. Ibid.
38 The meaning of "squiz" is uncertain. Internal evidence suggests that it may refer to some kind of woodworking. See especially the
journal entry for January19, 1881. Lloyd Hancock has suggested that Alvin might be making apple cider and that the "Squiz-shop"
was a cider press. Interview with Lloyd Hancock, August 4, 1978, Jefferson Township.
39 As noted in the introduction, William Gregory's uncle, Virginius T. (Jake) Harrison, fourty-eight, and his wife Lucinda, fourty-nine,
owned a Jefferson Township farm, us., Tenth Census, 1880, p 171.
40 Peach-blows were large, smooth-skinned potatoes. Interview with Marshall Lutes, Bloomington, Indiana, July 10, 1978.
41 Samuel D. Howell, twenty-nine, was a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 125.
42 This refers to "Wat' Harrison's wife Margaret Emma and their baby Maude E., born on September 15, 1879. See footnote one.
Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family"; U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 177. The Harrison family genealogy was prepared for
Maude E. (Harrison) Wilhite.
43 Probably the Donald Bain, Sr., farm. See footnote twenty-six.
44 Julius C. Keifer, thirty-eight, was a Martinsville blacksmith in 1880.
45 Wilbur was one of two Gregg Township villages of, in 1880, recent origin, consisting of "one or two stores, a blacksmith or
two, a carpenter, a saw mill, a post office, and from a half dozen to fifteen families;' Blanchard, Counnties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 156.
46 Horace Pearce owned land in the southwest quarter of section twelve, Jefferson Township. Plat Map, Morgan County, Indiana, 1875.
47 Millar Howell was a Jefferson Township farmer born in North Car6'iina in 1808. Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 330.
48 Sally was probably Sarah Echler, nine, a servant girl in the Virginius T. Harrison household in 1880. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 171.
49 Edwin W. Callis was born in Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jerrsey, on January 17, 1827, and came to Martinsville in
1855 where he bought the Morgan County Gazette. He edited the paper as a Republican instrument - until 1870 when he shifted
to the Democratic party. Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 34, 176.
50 Squire W. Faulkner, fifty, ran a Martinsville hotel and restaurant, the Faulkner House. Wounded in the abdomen during the
Civil War, he was receiving a $6.00 pension. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 147; Blanchard, Counnties of Morgan, Monroe
and Brown, 78, 88-89; People's Guide, 360.
51 Probably James H. Holmes, thirty-one, a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 182.
52 Here William Gregory refers to the Bethlehem Methodist Church. See footnote seventeen.
53 Delilah Harrison, fourteen, was William Ripley's fourth daughter. U.s., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 141.
54 Probably William A. Benge, twenty-three, a young Jefferson Township farm laborer. Ibid., p. 174.
55 Probably either John Bain, thirty-six, or John E. Bain, twenty-eight, both of whom were Jefferson Township farmers.
Ibid., pp. 178, 181.
56 Martha Hitchcock Harrison died on November 1, 1879, as noted in the introduction.
57 General Winfield Scott Hancock was the 1880 Democratic presidential candidate defeated by James A. Garfield.
Williams, Current, and Friedel, Hisstory of the United States, II, 183.
58 William Ballinger, twenty-one, was a farm laborer residing in 1880 on a Jefferson Township farm with his brother-in-law,
William A. Benge. See footnote fifty-four. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 174.
59 By November 3, 1880, the Republican victory had been forecast. By that time James A. Garfield was reported to have 231
electoral votes. Only 185 were required for victory. Ultimately, the Republican candidate received 214 elecctoral votes; although
his popular vote was only slightly larger than Hancock's. Martinsville Republican, October 28, 1880; Williams, Current, and
Friedel, History of the United States, II, 183.
60 This is another name for a cabbage cutting knife.
61 Probably Stokely Stiles, born October 12, 1831, and died December 12, 1912, who was a Jefferson Township farmer.
He served in Company F, 148th Indiana Volunteers and in 1880 owned 420 acres of land. Cowen, "Morgan County Cemetery
Records;' II, 498; Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 333.
63 Daniel Kirk, fifty-one, was a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Census, 1880, p. 171.
64 Probably Jaspar Bunton, twelve, son of William Bunton, forty-two, a Jefferson township farmer who served in
Company F, 148th Indiana Volunnteers. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 179; Cowen, "Morgan County
Cemetery Records; I, 271.
65 "Dutch" Dan Bain was probably Daniel M. Bain twenty-three, a cousin 'living on William Bain's Jefferson Township
farm. "Os" was probably William Gregory's uncle, Oscar Hamilton, listed as a gardner on the same farm. U.S.,
Tenth Census, 1880, p. 176.
66 James Bishop, the fifteen-year-old brother of Margarett Emma Harrison, lived at Wat's in 1880, working
on the farm. Ibid., p.177.
67 Probably William Riley NosIer, forty-three, who ran a sawmill in Jefferrson Township. He was born in
Owen County, Indiana, on November 9, 1835, and came to Morgan County in 1876. Ibid., p. 176; Blanchard,
Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 332-33.
68 See footnote sixty-four
69 Probably Peter Newburn, seventeen, a servant on the Stokley Stiles farm. His brother owned a Jefferson
Township farm. See footnote twenty-nine. U.S. Tenth Census, 1880, p. 176.
70 James Singleton, nineteen, was working the Jefferson Township farm of his mother-in-law, Polly A. Moore.
Ibid., p. 175.
71 Probably Henry Crone, fifty-seven, a Jefferson Township famer. Ibid., p.175
72 This comment referring to school teacher William D. Bain, provides a good example of the author's sense
of humor. See footnote eighty-four for identification.
73 James G. Bain, thirty-six, was editor and publisher of the Martinsville Republican, now the Reporter, and
the postmaster at Martinsville. US Tenth Census, 1880, p140; Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe
and Brown, 171-72
74 Campbellism was a Protestant doctrine taught by Dr. Alexander Campbell who rejected complexity and
denominational development. "Man, he believed, must find Christ by restoring first-generation biblical
Christianity." Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (New York, 1970), 86-87.
75 Loper's schoolhouse could not be identified with certainty. A journal entry for December 17, 1880, indicates
Effie Harrison was teaching there. An entry for January 19, 1881, shows her teaching at School Number 7.
If these two schools were the same, then Loper's is better known as the Buffalo schoolhouse.
76 John Kivett, forty-two, was a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 175.
77 Probably Christina Allen, seventy, who kept a Jefferson Township house for her son-in-law, Christopher
Cornwall, and his family. Ibid., 176.
78 Rebecca Foxworthy, fifty, was a Jefferson Township widow. Ibid.
79 Stoga boots refer to heavy, rough shoes or boots and may also connotate a cheap, hand-me-down boot.
Ormand Johnson to editor, August 9, 1978.
80 Albert V. Bishop, Margarett Emma Harrison's brother, was born on July 8, 1863, and died on October
22, 1907. Cowen "morgan County Cemetery Records," II, 537: Duke, "Genealogy of Harrison Family."
81 Probably Sophronia Van Demark, who was a cousin of William Gregory and daughter of F. J. Van Demark. See footnote eighty-seven. Charles Harriison, "Family Record."
82 Probably N. T. Cunningham of the Martinsville general merchandising firm of Cunningham, Bollinger & Phelps founded in 1880. Blanchard, Counties, of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 181.
83 Probably Alexander Stiles, twenty-nine, who was a Jefferson Township farmer. U.S., Tenth Census, 1880, p. 181.
84 William D. Bain, twenty-three, son of Donald Bain, Sr., was a Jefferson Township school teacher and close friend of William Gregory. He acted as enumerator of the 1880 census for· the township. Ibid.
85 Possibly George Pearce, twenty-one, son of Isabelle Pearce, a Jefferson Township widow. U.S., Ninth Census, 1870, p. 455.
86 This is probably a local term for a Dagon plow which has a triangular share. Ormand Johnson to editor, August 9, 1978.
87 Flavius Josephus Van Demark, born February 18, 1844, was William Gregory's mother's half-brother. See footnote 20. Charles Harrison, "Family Record."
88 Probably the home of AmosS Hart of Washington Township. Blanchard, Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, 188.
89 Dwight Calhoun was a distant' cousin of William Gregory. Dwight's mother, Lucy Hitchcock, was one of William Gregory's mother's aunts. Charles Harrison, "Family Record."